wad

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.

n. A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.

n. A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.

n. A disk, as of felt or paper, used to keep the powder and shot in place in a shotgun cartridge.

n. Informal A large amount: a wad of troubles.

n. Informal A sizable roll of paper money.

n. Informal A considerable amount of money.

transitive v. To compress into a wad.

transitive v. To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding.

transitive v. To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.

transitive v. To insert a wad into (a firearm).

intransitive v. To form into a wad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An amorphous, compact mass.

n. A substantial pile (normally of money).

n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.

n. an ejaculate of semen.

n. Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits

v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

v. to wager

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Woad.

n. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.

n. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

n. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.

transitive v. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding.

transitive v. To insert or crowd a wad into; ; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

n. An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.

n. Plumbago, or black lead.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A small bunch or wisp of rags, hay, hair, wool, or other fibrous material, used for stuffing, for lessening the shock of hard bodies against each other, or for packing.

n. Specifically, something, as a piece of cloth, paper, or leather, used to hold the powder or bullet, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.

n. In ceramics, a small piece of finer clay used to cover the body of an inferior material in some varieties of earthenware; especially, the piece doubled over the edge of a vessel.

To form into a wad or into wadding; press together into a mass, as fibrous material.

To line with wadding, as a garment, to give more roundness or fullness to the figure, keep out the cold, render soft, or protect in any way.

To pad; stuff; fill out with or as with wadding.

To put a wad into, as the barrel of a gun; also, to hold in place by a wad, as a bullet.

A Scotch form of wed.

A Scotch form of would.

n. An obsolete or dialectal form of woad.

n. An impure earthy ore of manganese, which consists of manganese dioxid associated with the oxid of iron, cobalt, or copper. When mixed with linseed-oil for a paint it is apt to take fire. Also called bog-manganese, earthy manganese.

Examples

And what really gets liberal panties in a wad is when you point out that fascism is a form of socialism too, and that Democrats share far more similarities with classic fascism than anything else, and more so than any other political group.

Although ported tubes offer very little in the way of recoil reduction, despite manufacturers 'claims, the ports do help strip the wad from the shot column, preventing it from ramming into your pattern.

Muir wi 'Mr. Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can --- I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life

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"2. Specifically, something, as a piece of cloth, paper, or leather, used to hold the powder or bullet, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge. For ordinary double- or single-barreled shot-guns, wads are disks of felt, leather, or pasteboard cut by machinery or by a hand-tool, often indented to allow passage of air in ramming home, and sometimes specially treated with a composition which helps to keep the barrels from fouling." --Cent. Dict.